...Red Hat “Enterprise“ Linux Companies buy it because of sales, support, and the warrantee (the ability to hold an “enterprise” with financial resources accou

...Red Hat “Enterprise“ Linux Companies buy it because of sales, support, and the warrantee (the ability to hold an “enterprise” with financial resources accountable for mistakes). Importantly, because large companies use complicated, slow decision making processes with many people involved it is very expensive for them to buy software AND it is extremely expensive to sell them software. Vendors of “enterprise” software can support all the meetings and risk all the expense of that sales process. The feature checklist exists to provide rationale for the purchasing decision, but it isn’t essential to the decision.